A MILITARY helicopter has gone missing following an “accident” in bad weather in the southwest of Cambodia, its defence ministry said.
The ministry said in a Facebook post on Saturday that the helicopter went missing in the rugged Cardamom Mountains, which are cloaked in dense rainforest.
“A helicopter has lost contact with the headquarters of the air force ... during a training,” it said.
“The accident happened due to bad weather.”
The ministry did not say when the helicopter went missing, what model it was or how many people were on board.
But air force sources said a Chinese-made Z-9 helicopter with at least two people aboard disappeared on Friday during a training exercise.
The defence ministry said rescue teams began searching for the missing on Saturday morning, but the helicopter had not been found.
Cambodia bought 12 Z-9 helicopters from China in 2013 to boost its military capacity. — AFP
